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TIL New Zealand is free from Rabies.

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VM5Am TIL every crewed spaceflight by the Soviet Union and Russia from the first crewed spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin until 2002 used a mechanical computer as navigation instrument
0wb61 TIL the cars that played Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona from Miami Vice actually weren't genuine Ferraris, but 1976 and 1981 Chevrolet Corvettes rebodied to look like Ferrari Daytonas.
7rQEO TIL in 1493, it is speculated that King James of Scotland sent two newborns to live in isolation with a deaf, mute woman to see what language they would speak. The King supposedly reported that the children grew up speaking Hebrew.
7ld7 TIL the reason Old World disease killed so many natives in the New World upon colonization was because of the disease’s roots in domesticated animals; while Europeans had centuries of exposure to countless livestock pathogens, natives kept virtually no livestock, so were defenseless against them.
MeAoK Today I learned that in the US all men between the ages of 18 and 25, must register for selective service (Formely the draft), failing to so may result in fines up to $250k, and up to 5 years of prison (felony), and may have impact on future rights, voting, grants etc. It has never applied to Women.